“Allahu akbar” Marseille jihadi who stabbed 2 girls to death released from custody day before assault

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A man who fatally stabbed two young female cousins Sunday while reportedly shouting “Allahu akbar” outside Marseille’s train station had been detained for shoplifting and released the day before the attack, French authorities said.

Marseille knife attacker had 7 identities

Marseille terror attack suspect released from custody day before assault

October 2, 2017: FOX News

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A man who fatally stabbed two young female cousins Sunday while reportedly shouting “Allahu Akbar” outside Marseille’s train station had been detained for shoplifting and released the day before the attack, French authorities said.

The man also had seven fake identities, used in previous encounters with police, officials said Monday. One such identity named him as “Ahmed H,” born in 1987 in Tunisia.

French authorities are studying the suspect’s cellphone and working to determine his true identity and whether he had direct links to ISIS, which claimed responsibility for Sunday’s stabbing. The assailant was killed by soldiers immediately after the attack, the latest of several targeting France.

The suspect was identified by his fingerprints, which matched those taken during seven previous incidents registered by police since 2005, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters.
A police officer stands guard while passengers enter the Marseille Saint Charles train station, a day after a man fatally stabbed two women outside the train station, in Marseille, southern France, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. The assailant was killed by soldiers immediately after the attack, the latest of several targeting France. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

A police officer stands guard near the Marseille Saint Charles train station a day after a man fatally stabbed two women in Marseille, France, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. (AP)

The attacker didn’t have any past convictions in France, Molins said. He did not elaborate on the previous police incidents, but noted the man’s most recent arrest occurred in the Lyon area Friday — just two days before the train station stabbing.

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The man was held overnight for shoplifting, and then released Saturday and the charges dropped, Molins said. Molins said local authorities had no reason to hold him further based on the ID he gave them, a Tunisian passport.

He told Lyon authorities that he did odd jobs, used hard drugs and was divorced. It’s not clear if the attacker had any connection to the victims, two cousins meeting for a birthday celebration in Lyon, Molins said.

Some witnesses reported hearing the assailant shout “Allahu Akbar!” — Arabic for “God is great” — and Molins said that’s one of the reasons prosecutors opened a terrorism investigation.

He said video surveillance of the site showed the man arrived at the station in the early afternoon and sat for a few minutes on a bench outside. He then suddenly jumped up and stabbed one woman several times, then ran away, then came back and attacked the second woman.

Police vans are parked outside Marseille Saint Charles train station, a day after a man fatally stabbed two women outside the train station, in Marseille, southern France, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. The assailant was killed by soldiers immediately after the attack, the latest of several targeting France.

A woman passer-by tried to intervene, Molins said. The man then tried to attack soldiers patrolling the site, but they shot him dead with two bullets.

The suspect was found with two knives and a telephone, but no identity papers, according to Molins.

The man’s multiple pseudonyms made it difficult to even find a house to search for more clues, said Yves Lefebvre of the Unite SGP Police union.

“While it could shock the public, unfortunately it doesn’t shock us, the police,” that the suspect was released the day before carrying out a deadly attack, he said. He said shoplifting usually results in a quick police report and a court summons for a later date, and the suspect is released.

“Nothing allowed us to suspect there was a threat of radicalization during the [Lyon] arrest,” Lefebvre told The Associated Press.

The ISIS-linked Aamaq propaganda outlet said the assailant was acting in response to the extremist group’s calls to target countries in the U.S.-led coalition fighting militants in Syria and Iraq. France has been part of the anti-ISIS coalition since 2014. The Aamaq statement didn’t provide evidence of a direct link to the attacker, and it’s unclear if the claim is merely opportunistic.

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Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago

The Marseille Victim of French White Privilege was profiled by Racist Cops just one day before White Supremacist Crazy Rays caused Racist Bullets to leap of their cartridges and air condition him while he was practicing his religion? Who knew?

/s off

Again, I’d better add the /sarc off – given that this statement can’t be sufficiently over the top to qualify as sarcasm without an explicit warning.

Doubleplusgood Comrade Leftists … Normal Americans have to use the /sarc flag to avoid being taken for a Leftist.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Wanna bet his relatives sue on Ahmed’s behalf – claiming he was triggered by the arrest and the French people owe them a payday for causing him to suddenly get religion?

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Again, you are bang on… freedom of religion, murdering infidels, is within a Muslim’s Human Rights.
Some leftists, perhaps all, compare the so-called Muslim immigrants to those of the persecuted Pilgrims; this is indicative of how psychotic and imbecilic the leftist horde has become.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

“become” I am yet to see that they were ever any better in the past.as now we are simply seeing them off the leash.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

True.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Aint’t that the truth, Dan Knight. It all gets curiouser and curiouser.

Poppey
Poppey
6 years ago

People outside of France will read of this tragic event and start dismissing anyone French as woosies and wimps who are “finished” for “letting this happen” etc etc, but it needs to be remembered that gun ownership is strictly controlled in France as it is everywhere else in the EU, and because of this fact, people look to the state for protection {not unreasonably}. As we know, the army shot the perp because 20,000 police were sacked.

When the political class decide it’s in the interests of the French people for them to be displaced in their own country for some spurious economic and “cultural” benefit, and these massacres are the result, the reaction is less anger in the natives and more like puzzlement. Their letters are patronised away and the objections ignored too. Result is a powerless electorate bullied into thinking they’re wrong to find fault in others beliefs and behaviour.

The twin blocks of a MSM biased against the political right and ANTIFA go a long way to ensure things don’t change at elections, it’s just another case of “buggins turn next” because the establishment parties all bow the knee to tolerance. It starts to resemble surrender after a while.

It’s going to take two things coinciding for the log jam to break up, the first will be an atrocity so vile that public feeling becomes important to the media and elite, and the second will be for a natural leader from the right to emerge who speaks to and works with the grain of human nature.

Uncommitted puzzled French voters have to be cured of their fear of the political right, and the right has to find a leader with fire in their belly enough to overcome by passion and reason all opposition to describing what’s wrong and what the solution has to be..

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

Excuses, excuses, this is what the french voted for in the past election. It is not as though the french have no experience with terrorism. When voters make a choice for style over substance, the result can be clearly seen in wester europe. Elections have consequences, know that.

Michael Copeland
Michael Copeland
6 years ago

“Nothing allowed us to suspect there was a threat of radicalization” – French police.
Nothing?
How about his Instruction Manual – you know, that Koran?
That says “Kill them wherever you find them”.
The fact that other muslims are not doing killings does not mean the instruction is not there. It just means that they are not carrying it out at present.
“The teachings of the Koran are universal and trans-time”, explains Ahemed Saad of North Lonon Central Mosque.
One who denies any verse is to be killed.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago

Good post, MC: “How about his Instruction Manual – you know, that Koran?
That says “Kill them wherever you find them”

Indeed, it makes my skin crawl, as do the Lefts’ Muslim Allies.

Ebayer
Ebayer
6 years ago

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Fern
Fern
6 years ago
Reply to  Ebayer

They are being prepared for sharia even before kindergarten.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago
Reply to  Fern

It is time for parents to pool their resources to home-school our children.

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KathyALynn
6 years ago
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Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago
Reply to  Ebayer

Thanks, Ebayer, I had to upchuck. It guaranteed my grand kids will not be reading this leftist propaganda. Sweden, like the entirety of the EU, is in a state of social and political decomposition.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

This is as the mayor of london said, terrorism is a fact of life in a big city, get used to it. Well ladies and gentlemen, do so.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago

The Leftist contagion regard Muslims as victims; infidels, such as these two girls, whom have been murdered by this scourge, Islam, are deemed as no more than collateral damage. Muslims, after all, continue to be disenfranchised by the wicked, unscrupulous West. Leftists/Marxists continue to spin their propagandist, apologist diktat while not giving a damn about the legitimate victims of this Cult of depravity.

One spin I heard lately was, ‘there are more Muslims being victimized than non-Muslims’; this unconscionable and audacious lie was from the gob of a talking head of the MSM. The latter sums up the reason so many Westerners are gullible, they depend on their bottom-feeding leadership and the subversive MSM for information. Receiving, in the end, nothing more than fake-news by the most proficient gaggle of propagandists since Goebbels.

Cai
Cai
6 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

Well put – absolutely as it is. We need an antidote to Leftist propaganda that has infected and shut down so many gullible Westerners thinking mechanisms.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

Between France, Britain and Germany, I cannot tell which one has suffered the most from Islamic violence, I truly cannot.

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